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This is a list of Superfund sites in North Carolina designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. . The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations
Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.As of the 2020 census, the population was 68,573. [1] Its county seat is Louisburg. [2] Franklin County is included in the Raleigh-Cary, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC Combined Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 2,368,947 in 2023.
In Sampson County, September 2023 samples found PFAS levels as high as 727,368 parts per trillion in a closed municipal landfill and 1,422,796 ppt in the still-operating municipal landfill.
Map of Warren County from a 1983 United States General Accounting Office report, asterisk denotes PCB landfill site. The controversy dated back to 1978, when a transformer company in Raleigh began to dump industrial waste containing PCBs along rural roads in fifteen North Carolina counties rather than pay for proper disposal.
The Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio welcomed more than 12,000 honey bees to two hives in designated pollinator gardens at the Franklin County Sanitary Landfill.
An article from 1996 said, “North Carolina’s PCB landfill in Warren County leaks about a half an inch of water a year”. State data on rainfall during 1996 and water levels inside the dump indicate 30,000 gallons of water flow into the site each year and 26,000 gallons flow out.
Sutton is an unincorporated community in southern Franklin County, North Carolina, United States. [1] It is located at the intersection of N.C. Highway 39 and Brantleytown Road (SR 1720), south of Bunn, at an elevation of 187 feet (57 m). [2]
Mapleville is an unincorporated community in east central Franklin County, North Carolina, United States [ 1 ] It is located east of Louisburg , at an elevation of 325 feet (99 m).